Anthony Bourdain Quotes

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane.

Anthony Bourdain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 25, 1956 - June 8, 2018

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OpportunityRideSleepBrainBody

I told you to sell it, not give it away.

Jerome Robbins

YouAwayGiveSell

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

Jennifer Granholm

LiveExperienceSpaceWorldSomeone

I've never been the type of person that puts things on a shelf or, like, needs to clean my sneakers every day. I just wear what I like.

John Gourley

DayEvery DaySneakersPersonNever

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

John Darnielle

WritingSongGoUpAlongStuff

Breakaway goals are fun.

Sidney Crosby

GoalsFun

Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.

Ruth B

HomeMusicLonelinessMeFreeYou

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Julia Cameron

GoodBestEnoughNothingWorstTry

'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.

Colson Whitehead

BookFirstFinishOutDaysBig

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Brea Grant

StrongYouGoSometimesRefreshing

Go vegetable heavy. Reverse the psychology of your plate by making meat the side dish and vegetables the main course.

Bobby Flay

VegetablesGoMeatPsychologySide

I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.

William Klein

GoodFightLuckGood LuckWorld

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.

Tim Wise

CommunityAlonePeopleColorReality

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